Stressful Life Events and Parent-Child Relationship

In modern technological society, stress is found to be a complex phenomenon.  Stress is a state of extreme difficulty, pressure, or strain. A state of bodily or mental tension resulting from factors that tend to alter an existent equilibrium is stress. In spite of the stress faced by the parents, parents play an indispensable role in life of their children.  The present article focuses on this aspect that parents who are stressed whether have an impact on their parent child relationship.Stress is an unavoidable effect of living. It has been also found to be linked to coronary heart disease, psychosomatic disorders, and various other mental and physical problems. Stress can be treated by a combination of counseling or psychotherapy and medication.It seems to be common knowledge that women are generally busier and more stressed than men, that they juggle more roles and are constantly rushing. Parents  protect, punish ,reject, reward, love ,demand their children in order to discipline them. A study done on impact of stressful life events on parent child relation focuses on this aspect that parents who are stressed whether have impact on their parent child relationship.

For this, a sample of 50 women in the age group of 25 to 45 yrs who had adolescent children were for the study.  The standardized tools namelyPresumptive Stressful Life Events Scale by Singh , Kaur & Kaur and Parent Child Relationship Scale  by Nalini Rao were introduced to the sample to collect the data for the study.

Table 1

Showing Mean, SD  and t score of 50 adolescents on PCRS domain

Marital Conflicts

Death of Spouse

Variable

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

t

Protecting

31.0

5.70

30.2

5.80

0 .46

Loving

30.0

5.51

31.8

7.82

-0 . 88

Symbolic punishment

28.2

5.27

25.0

6.79

1 . 75

 

Rejecting

24.7

6.67

25.7

6.74

-0 . 49

Object Punishment

24.4

7.79

25.8

6.74

-0 . 58

Demanding

24.7

7.35

25.5

7.07

-0 . 37

Neglect

23.0

4.65

23.6

5.38

-0 . 40

Object Reward

27.7

5.49

29.2

6.23

-0 . 85

Symbolic Reward

31.0

5.90

34.1

-2 . 09

3.69

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